Western Approach

One of the oldest thoroughfares in Plymouth is North Street running northwards from Sutton Harbour, meanwhile North Road runs across the top of the perimeter of what was Victorian Plymouth. Southside Street on the other hand marked the early southern perimeter of Tudor Plymouth.

Throughout the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth there was an East Street running eastwards off Old Town Street and for a time, on paper at least, the new eastern route into town above the bus station was designated as being Eastern Approach, the name did not stick however and instead that stretch of road nominally became an extension of Exeter Street.

The new road marking the western boundary of the new City Centre however was dubbed quite logically and more successfully - Western Approach. Strangely enough it is like both North Road and Southside Street in as much as it does not run so much towards the compass point that gives it its name but rather almost at right angles to it.